This is not a myth, but the absolute truth. Ferrer is a vulture and Berdych, Tsonga and Del Potro are far superior tennis players.

You can repeat that as much as you want, but won't find many to agree

__________________“There’s so many athletes, tennis players around the world,” he continued, trying to put his life into some kind of perspective, “they want to be the best in what they do. They want to succeed. Many of them, they don’t succeed in the end. I’m fortunate to have this opportunity and succeed.”

Of course it's not a myth. The only myth used to be that he was not a vulture - but that's a myth I debunked long ago and no longer exists for any reasonable tennis fan.

The only thing here is you saying "Myth Busted" and that image on the show when they bust a myth.

Seriously now. Whether Ferrer is a vulture or not should not be important to anyone. Ferrer rarely has problems from players ranked below him, thus he has earned his ranking just below the Top 4. My live rankings has a certain column where all MS+GS points for each player are displayed. It goes like this for the Top 20:

As one can see, Ferrer has more mandatory points than the following players anyway. Monaco is the player that has earned most of his points in non-mandatory tournaments. Dolgo also has a very low mandatory point count, followed by Nishikori. Even without Paris, Ferrer still scores more than Berdych.

Of course it's not a myth. The only myth used to be that he was not a vulture - but that's a myth I debunked long ago and no longer exists for any reasonable tennis fan.

How to argue the Mark Lenders way.

Blindly stumble around ignoring the facts until people get so bored of you that they are willing to ignore your tedious arguments; at which point you think you've won when really people just don't care enough to keep proving you wrong.

Yes he is vulture, but yes he deserve to be in ranking higher in 2012 - simply his season is very good and he is super-consitent, something Tsonga, Berdych and even Delpo can´t do

Those big hitters are bigger threats to top 4 and have higher peak level, but Ferrer at his best is so consistent and not loosing to mugs that he will always have enough points. So right now his ranking is well deserved also slam speaking - QF,SF,QF,SF - that´s something really impressive in 1 year to do. We will see how 2013 will go if Delpo and BErdych can take their level to higher level and play more consistent

The only thing here is you saying "Myth Busted" and that image on the show when they bust a myth.

Seriously now. Whether Ferrer is a vulture or not should not be important to anyone. Ferrer rarely has problems from players ranked below him, thus he has earned his ranking just below the Top 4. My live rankings has a certain column where all MS+GS points for each player are displayed. It goes like this for the Top 20:

As one can see, Ferrer has more mandatory points than the following players anyway. Monaco is the player that has earned most of his points in non-mandatory tournaments. Dolgo also has a very low mandatory point count, followed by Nishikori. Even without Paris, Ferrer still scores more than Berdych.

He has those points because of his previous vulturing, which made him get an inflated ranking and thus getting easy draws in big events left, right and center. Usually he'd mug out anyway, but 2012 has been his career year so he has mostly been able to navigate through those weak draws until facing the first good player.

He has those points because of his previous vulturing, which made him get an inflated ranking and thus getting easy draws in big events left, right and center. Usually he'd mug out anyway, but 2012 has been his career year so he has mostly been able to navigate through those weak draws until facing the first good player.

Tsonga went out to Klizan @USO and Berdych to Gulbis @Wimbledon... was that a hard draw?

__________________“There’s so many athletes, tennis players around the world,” he continued, trying to put his life into some kind of perspective, “they want to be the best in what they do. They want to succeed. Many of them, they don’t succeed in the end. I’m fortunate to have this opportunity and succeed.”